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2016
2016x1
First Night of the Proms - Part One (BBC TWO)
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Tchaikovsky’s ravishing 'Romeo and Juliet' overture launches our celebrations marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare. Argentine soloist Sol Gabetta makes her Proms debut in .. show full overview
2016x2
First Night of the Proms - Part Two (BBC FOUR)
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Katie Derham presents the second half of the opening of the 2016 BBC Proms season from the Royal Albert Hall. Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the BBC .. show full overview
2016x3
Mozart, Haydn and Fauré
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In a Prom of choral classics the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, follows intricate sacred works by Mozart and Haydn with the radiant serenity of Fauré, whose Requiem radiates .. show full overview
2016x4
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and Valery Gergiev
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Valery Gergiev and his Munich Philharmonic Orchestra open with Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro and close with a suite from Richard Strauss’s waltz-filled opera Der Rosenkavalier. In between, .. show full overview
2016x6
Gospel Prom
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In the second ever Gospel Prom, some of the best Gospel music is performed by the London Adventist Chorale, the London Community Gospel Choir, V9 Collective and University Choir of the .. show full overview
2016x8
Strictly Prom
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Could this be the glitziest Prom ever? Get your dancing shoes on and join Katie Derham and a whole host of your favourite Strictly Come Dancing professionals as they celebrate the music .. show full overview
2016x10
Ten Pieces II
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After the success of last year’s Ten Pieces Prom comes a new selection of classical essentials, this time aimed at secondary-school pupils. In the culmination of the Ten Pieces II .. show full overview
2016x11
Wagner and Tippett
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As Europe slipped towards Fascism, Michael Tippett felt solidarity with the downtrodden. Then, in 1938,a young Polish Jew, whose parents had been deported by the Nazis, shot a German .. show full overview
2016x12
Ten Pieces II
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After the success of last year’s Ten Pieces Prom comes a new selection of classical essentials, this time aimed at secondary-school pupils. In the culmination of the Ten Pieces II .. show full overview
2016x18
Mahler – Symphony No.3
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On the shores of the Attersee in Upper Austria, the hut still stands in which Gustav Mahler set about creating one of the most overwhelming visions of nature in all art. The composer’s .. show full overview
2016x19
David Bowie Prom
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A celebration and reinterpretation of the music of David Bowie with the Berlin-based, genre-defying musicians’ collective s t a r g a z e and its Artistic Director André de .. show full overview
2016x102
Haitink Conducts Mahler
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The great conductor Bernard Haitink marks the 50th anniversary year of his first appearance at the Proms with Mahler's 3rd symphony. One of the most powerful and expansive musical .. show full overview
2016x20
Berlioz - Romeo and Juliet
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Shakespeare's influence on the world has been profound, and on no-one more so than Berlioz, who fell in love with the Bard's work in 1827 and so began a lifelong passion for all things .. show full overview
2016x27
Helen Grime, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky
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Tonight’s Prom marks the first instalment of all three of Stravinsky’s landmark ballets for the Ballet Russes company, all performed this weekend by Scottish orchestras. In the vivid .. show full overview
2016x29
Also sprach Zarathustra, The Planets
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Edward Gardner conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the women of the City of Birmingham Youth Chorus in Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra and Holst’s The Planets. The programme opens with a new work by Iris ter Schiphorst.
2016x36
Jamie Cullum Prom
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Straddling the boundaries of jazz, pop and rock, Jamie Cullum returns for another Late Night Prom after his sell-out appearance in 2010. This time, backed by the Roundhouse Choir and .. show full overview
2016x38
The John Wilson Orchestra performs Gershwin
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John Wilson and his orchestra return to pay tribute to George and Ira Gershwin, one of America’s most celebrated song-writing duos, with favourites including ‘Embraceable You’, ‘Love .. show full overview
2016x100
Gershwin Gala with the John Wilson Orchestra
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Proms favourites the John Wilson Orchestra and their eponymous conductor celebrate the music and lyrics of one of the greatest song-writing partnerships in American history - George and .. show full overview
2016x41
The Hallé – Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde
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Berlioz’s King Lear overture was admired by the King of Hanover: ‘How you have portrayed [Cordelia] – her humility and tenderness! It is heart-rending, and so beautiful!’ Continuing .. show full overview
2016x43
Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
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Katie Derham introduces another chance to see one of the most memorable Proms from the BBC archive. This week, she is joined by special guest Stephen Fry for one of his favourite .. show full overview
2016x143
BBC Proms Encores: Prom 43: Schubert Rondo
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Martha Argerich performs Schubert's Rondo in A
2016x101
Ravel and Rachmaninov
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Valery Gergiev conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in three popular classics - Ravel's hypnotic Bolero, the ravishing suite from Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier and .. show full overview
2016x49
Quincy Jones Prom
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Jules Buckley and his Metropole Orkest return to the Proms to celebrate the career of composer, arranger, conductor, producer and all-round musical giant Quincy Jones. Recent musical .. show full overview
2016x51
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop
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This year’s Proms focus on Latin America in the year the Olympic Games go to Rio de Janeiro heats up with a visit from the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra under its charismatic conductor .. show full overview
2016x52
São Paulo Jazz Symphony Orchestra
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Immediately following the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra’s evening Prom, its string players and Principal Conductor Marin Alsop are joined by members of the São Paulo Jazz Symphony .. show full overview
2016x21
Mozart from Memory
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The Aurora Orchestra with conductor and founder Nicholas Collon return to the Proms with another performance entirely from memory. Not a note of music or a single music stand will be .. show full overview
2016x54
Mozart's Requiem
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The story of Mozart’s last months is almost as remarkable as the string of masterpieces he produced during them. Who was the cloaked figure rumoured to have commissioned Mozart to write .. show full overview
2016x55
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra makes its first London appearance with young Lithuanian Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who becomes the orchestra’s Music Director next season. While .. show full overview
2016x57
Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
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Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto, performed by his childhood friend, legendary pianist Martha Argerich, along with epic orchestral extracts from three different operas by Richard Wagner.
2016x60
Bach, Bruckner
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata No 82, 'Ich habe genug' (22 mins). Anton Bruckner, Symphony No 9 in D minor (64 mins). Christian Gerhaher bass-baritone, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Philippe Jordan conductor
2016x64
Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle – Boulez and Mahler
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Sir Simon Rattle brings his Berlin Philharmonic to the Proms for two concerts, the first falling on the day the festival commemorates the towering genius that was the late Pierre .. show full overview
2016x74
Verdi – Requiem
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Verdi’s shattering Requiem – which began life as a memorial to Rossini – was so forthright in its expression of grief, faith and judgement that many thought it too dramatic for .. show full overview
2016x56
CBeebies Prom: A Musical Journey
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CBeebies favourites take a musical journey with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
2016x75
Last Night of the Proms - Part 1
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Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez is the star soloist in a Last Night that also showcases a hand-picked selection of young singers in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music.
2016x76
Last Night of the Proms - Part 2
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Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez is the star soloist in a Last Night that also showcases a hand-picked selection of young singers in Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music. Second part .. show full overview

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